Lawrence Talks

Trustee since 2024

I have always had a passion for fisheries and the environment having been an enthusiastic angler growing up fishing the canals near Rugby, the Warwickshire Avon and rivers and dykes in Norfolk. 

Equipped with a BSc in Geography from Durham University and an MSc in Marine Environmental Protection from Bangor University, I was fortunate to be appointed as a Fisheries Officer with the National Rivers Authority in Hampshire in 1991. Who would have guessed that I would be still working in this field, now as the Environment Agency’s Senior Advisor for Salmonid Management for England. 

Achievements that I am most proud of include winning a Millennium Marque for the Hermitage River Restoration Project, which remains one of the biggest urban river restoration projects in the south of England; chairing the England Chalk River Biodiversity Action Plan Steering Group and being the lead author for the first ever report on the state of England’s chalk rivers; developing the Salmon Five Point Approach to conserve and enhance England’s salmon populations; and leading the England and Wales’ Trout & Grayling Group.

Throughout this time, I have been an active member of the Institute of Fisheries Management and am now a Chartered Fellow of the Institute.  

I live in Winchester with Clare and three sons Harry, Charlie and Tom, and I am a keen allotmenteer, fisherman, canoeist and marshman.